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most citedThe Astropy Project: Building an inclusive, open-science project and status of the v2.0 core package

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astro-ph.GA2022★ 30 cited

PHANGS-JWST First Results: A Global and Moderately Resolved View of Mid-Infrared and CO Line Emission from Galaxies at the Start of the JWST Era

Adam K. Leroy, Alberto D. Bolatto, Karin Sandstrom +41

We explore the relationship between mid-infrared (mid-IR) and CO rotational line emission from massive star-forming galaxies, which is one of the tightest scalings in the local uni…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 49 cited

PHANGS-JWST First Results: Tracing the Diffuse ISM with JWST Imaging of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Emission in Nearby Galaxies

Karin M. Sandstrom, Eric W. Koch, Adam K. Leroy +43

JWST observations of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) emission provide some of the deepest and highest resolution views of the cold interstellar medium (ISM) in nearby galaxie…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 22 cited

PHANGS-JWST First Results: Stellar Feedback-Driven Excitation and Dissociation of Molecular Gas in the Starburst Ring of NGC 1365?

Daizhong Liu, Eva Schinnerer, Yixian Cao +36

We compare embedded young massive star clusters (YMCs) to (sub-)millimeter line observations tracing the excitation and dissociation of molecular gas in the starburst ring of NGC 1…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 96 cited

The prevalence and influence of circumstellar material around hydrogen-rich supernova progenitors

Rachel J. Bruch, Avishay Gal-Yam, Ofer Yaron +44

Narrow transient emission lines (flash-ionization features) in early supernova (SN) spectra trace the presence of circumstellar material (CSM) around the massive progenitor stars o…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 131 cited

The PHANGS-JWST Treasury Survey: Star Formation, Feedback, and Dust Physics at High Angular resolution in Nearby GalaxieS

Janice C. Lee, Karin M. Sandstrom, Adam K. Leroy +74

The PHANGS collaboration has been building a reference dataset for the multi-scale, multi-phase study of star formation and the interstellar medium in nearby galaxies. With the suc…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 24 cited

Pulsar revival in neutron star mergers: multi-messenger prospects for the discovery of pre-merger coherent radio emission

A. J. Cooper, O. Gupta, Z. Wadiasingh +5

We investigate pre-merger coherent radio emission from neutron star mergers arising due to the magnetospheric interaction between compact objects. We consider two plausible radiati…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 131 cited

A very luminous jet from the disruption of a star by a massive black hole

Igor Andreoni, Michael W. Coughlin, Daniel A. Perley +78

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) are bursts of electromagnetic energy released when supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at the centers of galaxies violently disrupt a star that passes t…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 5 cited

Hard X-ray Observations of the Hydrogen-poor Superluminous Supernova SN 2018hti with NuSTAR

Igor Andreoni, Wenbin Lu, Brian Grefenstette +3

Some Hydrogen-poor superluminous supernovae are likely powered by a magnetar central engine, making their luminosity larger than common supernovae. Although a significant amount of…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 18 cited

CO(2-1) Survey at 9 parsec resolution in the SMC

H. P. Saldaño, M. Rubio, A. D. Bolatto +3

The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is the closest low-metallicity galaxy to the Milky Way where the dynamical state of molecular clouds can be analyzed. We present a CO(2-1) survey a…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 31 cited

Volumetric rates of Luminous Red Novae and Intermediate Luminosity Red Transients with the Zwicky Transient Facility

Viraj R. Karambelkar, Mansi M. Kasliwal, Nadejda Blagorodnova +27

Luminous red novae (LRNe) are transients characterized by low luminosities and expansion velocities, and are associated with mergers or common envelope ejections in stellar binarie…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 52 cited

Uncovering a population of gravitational lens galaxies with magnified standard candle SN Zwicky

Ariel Goobar, Joel Johansson, Steve Schulze +35

Detecting gravitationally lensed supernovae is among the biggest challenges in astronomy. It involves a combination of two very rare phenomena: catching the transient signal of a s…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 63 cited

First results from the JWST Early Release Science Program Q3D: Turbulent times in the life of a extremely red quasar revealed by NIRSpec IFU

Dominika Wylezalek, Andrey Vayner, David S. N. Rupke +20

Extremely red quasars, with bolometric luminosities exceeding erg s, are a fascinating high-redshift population that is absent in the local universe. They are the…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 9 cited

The thermonuclear X-ray bursts of 4U 1730-22

Peter Bult, Giulio C. Mancuso, Tod E. Strohmayer +11

We present observations of the historic transient 4U 1730-22 as observed with the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER). After remaining in quiescence since its 1972 d…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 41 cited

A radio-detected Type Ia supernova with helium-rich circumstellar material

Erik C. Kool, Joel Johansson, Jesper Sollerman +34

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are thermonuclear explosions of degenerate white dwarf (WD) stars destabilized by mass accretion from a companion star, but the nature of their progenit…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 10 cited

The Influence of Disk Composition on the Evolution of Stars in the Disks of Active Galactic Nuclei

Alexander J. Dittmann, Adam S. Jermyn, Matteo Cantiello

Disks of gas accreting onto supermassive black holes, powering active galactic nuclei (AGN), can capture stars from nuclear star clusters or form stars in situ via gravitational in…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 13 cited

Extragalactic Science with the Experiment for Cryogenic Large-aperture Intensity Mapping

Anthony R. Pullen, Patrick C. Breysse, Trevor Oxholm +14

The EXperiment for Cryogenic Large-Aperture Intensity Mapping (EXCLAIM) is a balloon-borne cryogenic telescope that will survey the spectrum of diffuse emission from both the Milky…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 12 cited

GROWTH on S190426c II: GROWTH-India Telescope search for an optical counterpart with a custom image reduction and candidate vetting pipeline

Harsh Kumar, Varun Bhalerao, G. C. Anupama +17

S190426c / GW190426_152155 was the first probable neutron star - black hole merger candidate detected by the LIGO-Virgo Collaboration. We undertook a tiled search for optical count…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 5 cited

Dust Reverberation Mapping and Light-Curve Modelling of Zw229-015

E. Guise, S. F. Hönig, V. Gorjian +12

Multiwavelength variability studies of active galactic nuclei (AGN) can be used to probe their inner regions which are not directly resolvable. Dust reverberation mapping (DRM) est…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 117 cited

The Radius of PSR J0740+6620 from NICER with NICER Background Estimates

Tuomo Salmi, Serena Vinciguerra, Devarshi Choudhury +15

We report a revised analysis for the radius, mass, and hot surface regions of the massive millisecond pulsar PSR J0740+6620, studied previously with joint fits to NICER and XMM-New…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 33 cited

X-ray Properties of NGC 253's Starburst-Driven Outflow

Sebastian Lopez, Laura A. Lopez, Dustin D. Nguyen +5

We analyze image and spectral data from 365~ks of observations from the {\it Chandra} X-ray Observatory of the nearby, edge-on starburst galaxy NGC 253 to constrain proper…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 60 cited

BASS XXXVII: The role of radiative feedback in the growth and obscuration properties of nearby supermassive black holes

C. Ricci, T. T. Ananna, M. J. Temple +22

We study the relation between obscuration and supermassive black hole (SMBH) growth using a large sample of hard X-ray selected Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). We find a strong decre…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 5 cited

AT2019wxt: An ultra-stripped supernova candidate discovered in electromagnetic follow-up of a gravitational wave trigger

Hinna Shivkumar, Amruta D. Jaodand, Arvind Balasubramanian +13

We present optical, radio and X-ray observations of a rapidly-evolving transient AT2019wxt (PS19hgw), discovered during the search for an electromagnetic (EM) counterpart to the gr…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 27 cited

The discovery of the 528.6 Hz accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar MAXI J1816-195

Peter Bult, Diego Altamirano, Zaven Arzoumanian +15

We present the discovery of 528.6 Hz pulsations in the new X-ray transient MAXI J1816-195. Using NICER, we observed the first recorded transient outburst from the neutron star low-…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 61 cited

A real-time transient detector and the Living Swift-XRT Point Source catalogue

P. A. Evans, K. L. Page, A. P. Bearmore +5

We present the Living Swift-XRT Point Source catalogue (LSXPS) and real-time transient detector. This system allows us for the first time to carry out low-latency searches for new…